It seems the bigger looming issue is the fact that games for computers regardless of OS are becoming afterthoughts to the juggernaut that is Xbox and Playstation development. Who is really calling the shots for game releases anymore? The computer as a game machine is mostly a platform for WOW or SC2, and many times the titles released these days are afterthoughts from the console world (COD, BF2, Practically every Bethesda title). Yeah yeah, linux lacks games, but this is mostly due to absolute crappy support from Nvidia and ATI and the fact most games are written with DirectX in mind, not OpenGL. Good gaming on linux is a developers choice, and many choose to ignore it or blatantly sabotage it.
See? C'mon kiddies! This is why you don't run off of non-magnetic media! Always have a huge electromagnet nearby and be prepared to yank your RAM and huck it into formic acid when the jack boots come for your prOn!
Yes, it is. It is also some kind of hubris to scream about Wikileak's "1st amendment rights" to then attack MC, Paypal,....and Sarah Palin's website? These entities have a right to conduct their business however they want without undue criminal interference. Palin, whether you agree with her or not, certainly has a right to post a dissenting opinion on FB without having her place (website) smashed up by a bunch of thugs.
"More speech for Assange and wikileaks --- but no speech may be heard from, no business may be conducted with anyone who thinks this was a stupid/criminal/illegal/unethical thing to do and chooses to terminate their business relationship with Wikileaks!"
I have been struggling with this one as well. My outrage first came, not from any stupid grab for Assange, but the DDoS against Wikileaks supposedly done by the "Jester" or whatever. I would like to see some movement towards arresting this person as well. The lack of such movement seems suspect to me. But yes, kicking Sarah Palin because of a tweet is stupid, as is the DDoS directed at anyone. Any DDoS is an attempt to tell someone to "Shut their bitch mouth". Not very first amendment-y at all. As for the "rights" of MC, VISA, etc; to deny payments to a company should not fall under their "rights". They have the right to protect YOUR accounts from fraudulent activity. I am not sure where they believe they have the right to tell you what to spend your money on. If they claim it is from corporate personhood and moral grounds, how different are the line-item taxpayers in the US who send in a tenth of their tax bill with notes like "This money goes to the Forest Service, please. None for the War Machine?" In the end, it just makes me sad. I fear my government less now than I fear my fellow citizens. "By, of and for the people?" Yes, yes it is. If our government is psychotic, it is because it is a perfect mirror of the asshats who elected them all.
I have a couple of admins, who tried convincing their bosses that it would be many times cheaper to move software to a BSD or a Linux, only to be told that they didn't want to use that "communist bullshit software".
Some of it is down to plain old ignorant prejudice.
As a Northwest AT&T customer, their coverage is not a thorough as my Verizon phone was, but the data network is faster. That's in the Portland metro area.
I would assert that it is not North Korea and Iran's power to defend themselves, but the citizens of the opposing countries (read-America) to keep the hawks in their own government from unleashing the full potential of our military upon those countries. We have been "losing" wars since WW2 because of the pesky Geneva convention and our political lack of desire to see napalmed children on the evening news. Targeting civilians in WW2 was a legitimate strategy-eliminate the people who build the war machine to eliminate the war machine. I am NOT advocating for that, but I do think it is a different line altogether. Would our political will change if N. Korea dropped a nuke on us? I am betting it would.
Japan had already offered surrender terms to the US before the bomb drop. They asked for the emperor to remain as a figurehead. We said in return that we would only accept unconditional surrender. We dropped the first bomb because we could, we dropped the second bomb for collaborative data. After they offered unconditional surrender, we let them keep the emperor as figurehead.
It would have been a cool PDA OS because of the short boot time and low requirements, but the time for that was back when PDAs had less computing power than the space shuttle. I wouldn't mind seeing the concepts reused, though. Amiga was full of good ones, not least that it had a genuinely working microkernel architecture, which was a big part of its hardware autoconfiguration scheme.
Well, up until early 2000's, Amigas were just fine for the Space Shuttle:
he had no point, otherwise he would have posted with his account and earned a flamebait mod point to go with the OP. There is life outside of Win7's and OS-X's shiny prison.
Why? If they were functioning properly then I would say that was very astute of them not to waste money upgrading. They most certainly got their money's worth out of 3.11.
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the only thing that moves 120 miles an hour or more in the Army are helicopters and privates after the constipatory effect of MREs has worn off.
It seems the bigger looming issue is the fact that games for computers regardless of OS are becoming afterthoughts to the juggernaut that is Xbox and Playstation development. Who is really calling the shots for game releases anymore? The computer as a game machine is mostly a platform for WOW or SC2, and many times the titles released these days are afterthoughts from the console world (COD, BF2, Practically every Bethesda title). Yeah yeah, linux lacks games, but this is mostly due to absolute crappy support from Nvidia and ATI and the fact most games are written with DirectX in mind, not OpenGL. Good gaming on linux is a developers choice, and many choose to ignore it or blatantly sabotage it.
See? C'mon kiddies! This is why you don't run off of non-magnetic media! Always have a huge electromagnet nearby and be prepared to yank your RAM and huck it into formic acid when the jack boots come for your prOn!
Yes, it is. It is also some kind of hubris to scream about Wikileak's "1st amendment rights" to then attack MC, Paypal, ....and Sarah Palin's website? These entities have a right to conduct their business however they want without undue criminal interference. Palin, whether you agree with her or not, certainly has a right to post a dissenting opinion on FB without having her place (website) smashed up by a bunch of thugs.
"More speech for Assange and wikileaks --- but no speech may be heard from, no business may be conducted with anyone who thinks this was a stupid/criminal/illegal/unethical thing to do and chooses to terminate their business relationship with Wikileaks!"
I have been struggling with this one as well. My outrage first came, not from any stupid grab for Assange, but the DDoS against Wikileaks supposedly done by the "Jester" or whatever. I would like to see some movement towards arresting this person as well. The lack of such movement seems suspect to me. But yes, kicking Sarah Palin because of a tweet is stupid, as is the DDoS directed at anyone. Any DDoS is an attempt to tell someone to "Shut their bitch mouth". Not very first amendment-y at all.
As for the "rights" of MC, VISA, etc; to deny payments to a company should not fall under their "rights". They have the right to protect YOUR accounts from fraudulent activity. I am not sure where they believe they have the right to tell you what to spend your money on. If they claim it is from corporate personhood and moral grounds, how different are the line-item taxpayers in the US who send in a tenth of their tax bill with notes like "This money goes to the Forest Service, please. None for the War Machine?"
In the end, it just makes me sad. I fear my government less now than I fear my fellow citizens. "By, of and for the people?" Yes, yes it is. If our government is psychotic, it is because it is a perfect mirror of the asshats who elected them all.
Yeah - the bible of "I pick up gibs for funsies"
Since when has IE ever been faster? And why bother cheating when you have 51% of the market share?
Browser share from Dec 2009 to Oct 2010
I bet it would most likely be in Deuteronomy. Find it yourself.
At what point are Nvidia and AMD going to supplant the need for an Intel or AMD cpu? This (graphics) processor in a card is blazingly fast.
Oh, come on now-you don't really think there won't be SOMEONE in a drunken stupor who gets the order backwards after banging that ugly bar chick?
"What? Pee on slide THEN plug into phone?! CRAAAAAAP!"
I have a couple of admins, who tried convincing their bosses that it would be many times cheaper to move software to a BSD or a Linux, only to be told that they didn't want to use that "communist bullshit software".
Some of it is down to plain old ignorant prejudice.
KDEmod on Arch hasn't been causing any issues either, apart from the fact that it's KDE.
Glorious!
I would guess that most of that line of thought came out of the Council of Trent, or in response to it at least.
Pope Innocent IV would like a word with you all...
You mean I'm going to have to learn to speak vim commands?!
that's great- I get angry, flip off my kinect, and next thing I know its gone and 360dd'ed.
As a Northwest AT&T customer, their coverage is not a thorough as my Verizon phone was, but the data network is faster. That's in the Portland metro area.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p508_Hoffman.html
Puiblished in the Chicago Tribune. Wasn't a formal attempt that is true, but hardly the closed book you would like it to be.
I would assert that it is not North Korea and Iran's power to defend themselves, but the citizens of the opposing countries (read-America) to keep the hawks in their own government from unleashing the full potential of our military upon those countries. We have been "losing" wars since WW2 because of the pesky Geneva convention and our political lack of desire to see napalmed children on the evening news. Targeting civilians in WW2 was a legitimate strategy-eliminate the people who build the war machine to eliminate the war machine. I am NOT advocating for that, but I do think it is a different line altogether. Would our political will change if N. Korea dropped a nuke on us? I am betting it would.
Japan had already offered surrender terms to the US before the bomb drop. They asked for the emperor to remain as a figurehead. We said in return that we would only accept unconditional surrender. We dropped the first bomb because we could, we dropped the second bomb for collaborative data. After they offered unconditional surrender, we let them keep the emperor as figurehead.
OPE... EPO... POE... "You know why I only drink grain alcohol and rainwater, or purified water, Mandrake?"
a Beowulf cluster of THOSE jobbies....
It would have been a cool PDA OS because of the short boot time and low requirements, but the time for that was back when PDAs had less computing power than the space shuttle. I wouldn't mind seeing the concepts reused, though. Amiga was full of good ones, not least that it had a genuinely working microkernel architecture, which was a big part of its hardware autoconfiguration scheme.
Well, up until early 2000's, Amigas were just fine for the Space Shuttle:
http://www.polyphoto.com/upchug/AEcastro.html
he had no point, otherwise he would have posted with his account and earned a flamebait mod point to go with the OP. There is life outside of Win7's and OS-X's shiny prison.
Why? If they were functioning properly then I would say that was very astute of them not to waste money upgrading. They most certainly got their money's worth out of 3.11.
That's true-I've never cared much for Windows in general but MS Office is the productivity suite.